Sun 3x <==> Sun 3 compatibility

Russ Poffenberger poffen at sj.ate.slb.com
Wed Sep 20 06:42:27 AEST 1989


In article <1232 at brazos.Rice.edu> adoyle at bbn.com (Allan Doyle) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 109, message 8 of 12
>
>Scenario:
>
>	When I plug a 280 CPU into the system from which I have
>	pulled the 480 CPU, it does not boot. I have, of course, already
>	copied a kernel built on a 280 system into the root partition.
>	The boot program gives up right away because of a page mapping
>	problem.
>

Did you copy the correct version of /boot onto the hard disk? This is the
actual boot code. Also after copying, you must do an installboot on it (if
4.0.x, you didn't specify) to make it work.

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